• Leadership of Imam Ali (A.S) in the Qur’an
    • The Verse of Proclamation is one of the verses explicitly referring to the leadership of Imam Ali (A.S). This verse announces the end of Prophet’s mission and the beginning of the leadership of Imam Ali (A.S). In the following articles there are ...
    • The Era of Patience
    • O impatient ones! Allah (SWT) will not become hurried in regards with the reappearance of Imam Mahdi (PBUH) due to the hurry and rush of people…” Believing in a saviour and his mission of settling the affairs of humanity is an ...
    • The title of Imam Mahdi Al-Qa’im (The Riser): Part 2
    • The fact that Imamate is a Divine covenant and Allah specifies it has been argued by rational and Qur’anic proofs and the consecutively-narrated sunnat. ‘Allamah Hilli has established one thousand proofs of this issue in ...
    • The title of Imam Mahdi Al-Qa’im (The Riser): Part 1
    • QUESTION: As everyone knows, one of the titles of the Mahdi (may Allah hasten his return) is Al-Qa’im (The Riser). A tradition has been related regarding the reason for his being given this title that requires contemplation, since it ...
    • Meaning of Al-Naas in the Verse of Proclamation
    • Some individuals try to say the word Al-Naas in the verse refers to the infidels and say the following matching sentence (inna allah la yahdi al-qowm al-kafirun) too, attests to this claim, the meaning thus expressed is not what ...
    • The Importance of Covenant on the Occasion of Ghadir Khum
    • The conditional sentence in the verse of proclamation (wa-in lam tafal fama ballaghta risalatahu = and if you do not, then you have not conveyed His message) is a warning sentence. This is to highlight the importance of the Commandment, meaning that ...
    • Ghadir Khum- Introduction
    • Ghadir Khumm is one of the most important events in the history of Islam that took place in the final days of the blessed life of the Holy Prophet of Islam (PBUH). On the glory of this day it suffices to say that the Almighty God says ...
    • Imam of the Time in the Words of Imam Ali (PBUH)
    • As the successor of the Prophet (PBUH), Imam Ali informs people of an absent Imam from among his descendents who will make world full of justice and remove injustice. How beautiful it is to combine ...
    • The Last Successor of Prophet in Ghadir Sermon
    • There would have been no word of Mahdi had the Prophet not introduced him because the people disobeyed divine order about the Velayat of Ali and did everything they could to fade the light of Imamate throughout history. They killed ...
    • Imam Mahdi in Ghadir Sermon
    • The Hajj ceremony of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in 10th A.H. was undoubtedly the greatest ever ceremony in the history of mankind. That was the last Hajj by the Best of the Mankind ...
    • Remember Him to Be Remembered by Him
    • God reminds his creatures: remember me so that I remember you. The Imam of Time is a complete manifestation of God. He is His greatest sign. He will remember us if we remember him. The more ...
    • Ways to Be in Touch with Imam of the Time
    • Here we try to answer the question of how to get the most of spiritual blessings of feeling the presence of the Imam of the time? Interestingly, it is easier for the youth to be ...
    • Blessing of Having Imam of the Time
    • Having Imam of the Time is of valuable spiritual blessings of God we do not appreciate enough. He does not exclusively belong to any certain group but to the entire mankind. He intermediates divine blessings. Everything anyone has is due to ...
    • Punishment of Hunger and Thirst in Hell
    • It is mentioned in traditions that the people of hell will be given the punishment of hunger so that they will willy-nilly eat the fruit of the Zaqqoom. Thereafter they will be made to taste the chastisement of thirst so they may ...
    • Imam Al-Mahdi, the Promised Saviour
    • The belief in the Mahdi is not only an essential doctrine deep-rooted in Islamic faith but rather it is an embodiment of human nature regardless of one’s religious affiliations. For it is the universal desire of humans as a whole to try to achieve or ...
    • Visiting the Grave of the Prophet and pious people
    • Given our discussion about narrations, conduct and tradition of Islamic Ummah with regards to visiting the grave of the Prophet and pious people to ask for intercession, it is clear that by objecting the old tradition of Muslims and ...
    • Wahhabists and Asking for Blessing
    • 1. One day Marwan [ibn al-Hakam] saw a man who had put his face on the Prophet’s grave. Marwan lifted him by his neck and said, “Do you know what you are doing?” and realized the man was ...
    • Muslims visiting tombs in order to Invoke Blessings
    • In addition to Muslims visiting the graves of the Prophet and his Companions to invoke blessing, such conduct was not limited to graves of the Prophet and his Companions, but also the graves of scholars and clerics, including: ...
    • Wahhabists networks throughout world (Part 2)
    • After making connection with pilgrims of Beytullah Al-Haram and taking their addresses, missionary Wahhabists continue their communication, send their content in the forms of pamphlets and booklets with beautiful and ...
    • Wahhabists networks throughout world (Part 1)
    • By spending huge amounts of money and buying Sunni clerics, Wahhabists began to build seminaries, mosques and Islamic centers in poor Muslim countries particularly Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and India that have ...
    • Wahhabism
    • Following the coalition between Al Saud and Al Sheikh tribes in Saudi Arabia, facilitated by Britain, and after conquering all area of Arabia and the establishment of Saudi Arabia, religious affairs were bequeathed to descendants of ...
    • British Support for Extreme Salafism
    • Some extremist Salafi currents were created by the British colonialism under different names. In his memoirs, British spy Mr. Hempher describes the way of recruiting and misleading some Muslims for this purpose. Because of their ...
    • Extremist Salafism
    • Salafism has been introduced by some so-called radical Sunni theologians who have wrong understanding of thoughts of theologians such as Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah. Extremist Salafism is a ...
    • The Qur’an and history
    • The expectation of solace, which forms the subject of the present study, is a question which is philosophical and social as well as religious and Islamic. As mentioned earlier, it has a Qur’anic basis. Hence, before an attempt is made to ...
    • Expectation of Solace
    • Aspiring for the realization of this human ideal has, in the Islamic traditions, been termed as \Expectation of Solace\. Its underlying idea is substantiated by the Islamic and Qur’anic principle of the prohibition of despair of Allahs Mercy. Those ...
    • The Promised Dawn and Expectation of Relief
    • The idea of the final victory of the forces of righteousness, peace and justice over those of evil, oppression and tyranny, of the world-wide spread of the Islamic faith, the complete and all-round establishment of high human values, the formation of ...
    • Are We Truly Awaiting Our Imam?
    • As the devotees of our beloved occulted Imam (may Allah hasten his reappearance), we often speak about the idea of awaiting our Imam. There are many narrations which confirm that exercising Intidhar Al Faraj (awaiting the relief) is the ...
    • The Mahdi in Muslim Traditions (Part 2)
    • The Book of Allah in its written form makes the universal message of Islam fairly known to the Muslims/non-Muslims who can read Arabic with understanding. Exhorting the believers to reach a higher understanding, Allah expects them ...
    • The Mahdi in Muslim Traditions (Part 1)
    • With the exception of a small Salafi group, both the Caliphate and Imamte schools of thought believe in the coming of the Mahdi before End times. The Hadiths from the Prophet in this respect are ...
    • Light and Darkness: part 2
    • In the physical world, darkness occurs when layers of material prevent the penetration of rays of light. A good example is what marine biologists experience in deep seas. When Yonus (Joanna) angrily left his town, he ...
    • Light and Darkness: part 1
    • The Qur’an declares that we categorically have two worlds: the Seen; and, the Unseen. When light projects on material objects, mans naked eyes can see them. It is probably for this reason that Allah ...
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